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'Fowls in the frith' ; 'Lord, Thou claepedest me' ; 'When I see on Rood' ; 'Why have you no ruth?' / Anonymous --

Roundel ('Now welcome, summer') from the Parliament of Fowls ; Unto Adam, His Own Scrivaeyn ; Roundel ('Since I from Love escapaed am'; ) from Merciless Beauty / Geoffrey Chaucer --

'I shall say what inordinate love is' ; "Omnes gentes, plaudite!' ; 'Blessed Mary" ; 'Peace maketh plenty' ; 'Hail, Queen of Heaven' ; 'I have been a foster' ; 'Western wind' / Anonymous --

'Though ye suppose' / John Skelton --

'Madam, withouten many words' ; 'Who hath heard' ; 'the enemy of life' ; 'Sighs are my food' 'Lux, my fair falcon' ; 'Throughout the world' / Sir Thomas Wyatt --

Spouse to the Younglings / William Baldwin --

'Thou sleepest fast' / Anonymous --

To an Old Gentlewoman that Painted Her Face / George Turbervile --

'Lowest trees have tops' / Sir Edward Dyer --

Epigram (Were I a king) / Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford --

To His Son ; 'What is our life?' ; 'Even such a time' / Sir Walter Raleigh --

'Sleep, baby mine, Desire' ; 'Like those sick folks' / Sir Philip Sidney --

'Whereas man's life' / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke --

Bethsabe's Song ('Hot sun, cool fire') from David and Bethsabe / George Peele --

Bridal Song ('Now, Sleep, bind fast') from The Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn / George Chapman --

'Thyrsis, sleepest thou?' ; Sparrow-hawk proud' ; Thule ; 'My love in her attire' ; 'Since first I saw your face' 'Love me not' ; 'Sweet, let me go!' ; 'He that hath no mistress' ; Sweet Cupid, ripen her desire' / Anonymous --

To his Wife, for Striking Her Dog / Sir John Harington --

Song (O mistress mine') from Twelfth Night ; Song ('When daffodils begin to peer') from The Winter's Tale ; Song ('Jog on, jog on') from The Winter's Tale --

Song ('Full fathom five') from the Tempest ; Song ('The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I') from the Tempest Song ('Where the bee sucks') from The Tempest / William Shakespeare --

Remembrance of My Friend Mr. Thomas Morley/ John Davies of Hereford --

'Happy were he' / Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex --

De Puero Balbutiente / Thomas Bastard --

'Fair summer droops' / Thomas Nashe --

'When thou must home' ; 'Never weather-beaten sail' ; 'Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air' ; 'Thus I resolve' ; 'Sleep, angry beauty' ; 'Thinkest thou to seduce me then' / Thomas Campion / Song ('In a maiden-time professed') from The Witch / Thomas Middleton --

Melancholy Conceit / Samuel Rowlands --

Song ('Slow, slow, fresh fount') from Cynthia's Revels ; On My First Son ; Song ('Still to be neat') from the Silent Woman ; Why I Write Not of Love ; On Something that Walks Somewhere ; ON Spies ; To Fine Lady Would-Be ; Song: That Women Are but Men's Shadows ; A Fragment of Petronius ; Song ('The fairy beam upon you') from The Gypsies Metamorphosed ; Song ('To the old, long life and treasure') from The Gypsies Metamorphosed ; 'Here she was wont to go' from The Sad Shepherd / Ben Johnson --

Computation ; The Expiration ; A Jet Ring Sent / John Donne --

Comparison of the Life of Man / Richard Barnfield --

To the Noble Sir Francis Drake / Thomas Beedome --

Epitaph / Thomas Heywood --

River-God's Song ('Don not fear') from The Faithful Shepherdess ; Song ('Care-charming sleep') from The Tragedy of Valentinian / John Fletcher --

Song ('Hold back thy hours') from the Maid's Tragedy / John Fletcher with Francis Beaumont --

'Grieve not, dear love' / John Digby, Earl of Bristol --

Air ('So full of courtly reverence') / Dudley, Lord North --

Hymn ('Drop, drop, slow tears') / Phineas Fletcher --

Motet ('A stranger here') / John Amner --

'Inconstancy's the greatest of sins' ; In a Glass Window, for Inconstancy / Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury --

Madrigal ('My thoughts hold mortal strife') ; To Chloris ; Madrigal ('This world a hunting is') / William Drummond of Hawthornden --

Song ('Oh, no more, no more') from The Broken Heart / John Ford --

'Let not the sluggish sleep' ; 'The Silver Swan' ; 'Love is a secret feeding fire' ; 'Art thou that she?' ; 'As life what is so sweet?' ; 'Three score and ten' ; De Morte / Anonymous --

Discontents in Devon ; Dreams ; Impossibilities, to His Friend ; Upon Himself ; The Coming of Good Luck ; The Silken Snake ; To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon ; Upon Her Feet ; His Prayer to Ben Jonson ; To Fortune ; Lovers, How They Came and Part ; Upon Julia's Clothes ; Kisses Loathsome ; To His Book ; His Desire ; No Coming to God Without Christ / Robert Herrick --

O Common Devotion ; On Zacchaeus ; On Change of Weathers / Francis Quarles --

Sic Vita ; Sonnet ('Go, thou that vainly') / Henry King --

Song ('We'll, placed in Love's triumphant chariot high') from The Humorous Lovers ; Love's Epitaph / William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle --

Sin ; Church Music ; Church Lock and Key ; Trinity Sunday ; Bitter-Sweet ; A Wreath / George Herbert --

Lips and Eyes ; A Lady's Prayer to Cupid / Thomas Carew --

Song to the Masquers ('Why do you dwell so long in clouds') from the Triumph of Peace ; Fie on Love / James Shirley --

On a Young Man and an Old Man / Edward May --

On a Gentlewoman Walking in the Snow / William Strode --

Occasioned by Seeing a Walk of Bay Trees ; In Praise of Fidelia ; In Obitum Ben. Jons. / Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland --

'Come from thy palace' from The Conceited Pedlar ; A Song ('Music, thou queen of souls') ; 'From witty men and mad' / Thomas Randolph --

Song ('The lark now leaves his watery nest') / Sir William Davenant --

Song ('Where did you borrow that last sigh') from The Lost Lady / Sir William Berkeley --

To One Married to an Old Man ; To Chloris, Upon a Favour received / Edmund Waller --

Nymph's Song ('Let us use it whilst we may') from Il Pastor Fido / Sir Richard Fanshawe.

Song ('O'er the smooth enamelled green') from Arcades / John Milton --

To My Nephew, J.B. / Clement Barksdale --

On the Miracle of Multiplied Loaves ; To the Infant Martyrs ; On the Miracle of Loaves ; On the Blessed Virgin's Bashfulness ; On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody / Richard Crashaw --

On Himself, Upon Hearing What Was His Sentence / James Graham, Marquis of Montrose --

To My Dear and Loving Husband / Anne Bradstreet --

Seeing Her Dancing / Robert Heath --

Preface to The Progress of Learning / Sir John Denham --

One Desiring Me to Read, but Slept It Out, Wakening / George Daniel --

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars ; Song ('In mine own monument I lie') / Richard Lovelace --

Dream ; 'The proud Egyptian queen' / Sir Edward Sherbune --

Invocation of Silence / Richard Flecknoe --

Eclipse / Henry Vaughan --

Soul and Body ; Of the Theme of Love / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle --

Song ('Distil not poison in mine ears') / John Hall --

Song of the Shepherd Boy from the Pilgrim's Progress ; Upon the Snail / John Bunyan --

Song ('Tis true our life is but a long dis-ease') / Katherine Philips --

Mercury's Song ('Fair Iris I love') from Amphitryon ; Momus'Song to Mars ('Thy sword within the scabbard keep') from the Secular Masque ; Chorus to the Gods ('All, all of a piece throughout') from the Secular Masque / John Dryden --

Mediation 8 / Philip Pain --

Christian Ethics / Thomas Traherne --

Nudus Redibo / Thomas Flatman --

On Dorinda / Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset --

Ever Present / Philip Ayres --

Old Man's Complaint ; A Thought on Human Life / Anonymous --

Song ('Kind lovers, love on') / John Crowne --

To - ('Let those with cost') / Thomas Rymer --

To My More than Meritorius Wife ; Grecian Kindness ; Song ('Leave this gaudy gilded stage') ; A Rodomontade on His Cruel Mistress / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester --

Catch ('If all be true') / Henry Aldrich --

Choice / Nahum Tate --

To Her Lover's Complaint / Jane Barker --

Song ('Ladies, though to your conquering eyes') from The Comical Review / Sir George Etherege --

On Myself ; Song ('The nymph in vain') / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea --

To His False Mistress ; Phillis's Resolution / William Walsh --

Les Estreines ; Adriani Morientis and Animam Suam ; The Lady who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus ; Domocritus and Heraclituls ; A Letter to the Honourable Lady, Miss Margaret Cavendish-Hilles-Harley ; The Insatiable Priest / Matthew Prior --

'Impatient with desire' ; Cloe / George Granville, Lord Lansdowne --

Shall I Repine? / Jonathan Swift --

Song ('See, se, she wakes') ; Song ('Pious Selinda') ; Lesbia ; Song ('False though she be') / William Congreve --

Fancy / Jonathan Smedley --

Trim's Song: The Fair Kitchen-Maid from The Funeral / Sir Richard Steele --

'If it be true' ; Jealousy / Esther Johnson --

Song ('Can love be controlled by advice?') from The Beggar's Opera ; Song ('Before the barn-door crowing') from The Beggar's Opera ; Song ('Think of dress in every light') from Achilles / John Gay --

Written on a Window ; Modesty / Aaron Hill --

On Dullness ; On a Lady Who P-ssed at the Tragedy of Cato ; Upon a Girl of Seven Years Old ; A Hymn, Written in Windsor Forest ; On a Certain Lady at Court ; Inscripto ; Epigram ('When other ladies to the shades go down') ' To Mr C, St James's Place, London, October 22nd ; Epigram engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I Gave to His Royal Highness ; On the Benefactions in the Late Frost / Alexander Pope --

Lady's Resolve / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu --

Monument / Samuel Wesley --

On the Setting Up Mr Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey / Anonymous --

Upon an Ingenious Friend, Over-Vain / Thomas Fitzgerald --

Song ('Man's a poor deluded bubble') / Robert Dodsley --

Ad Coelum / William Pattison --

On the Death of Squire Christopher, a Remarkably Fat Sportsman / John Wigson --

Lines Written on a Window at The Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Sorrow / William Shenstone --

Tophet / Thomas Gray --

Ode: Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 ; Sonnet ('When Phoebe formed a wanton smile') / William Collins --

'O Memory, thou fond deceiver' from The Captivity / Oliver Goldsmith --

Comparison / William Cowper --

Moral Tetrastich: from The Persian / Sir William Jones --

'If wishing for the mystic joys of love' / Thomas Chatterton --

My Birthday / George Crabbe --

; Angel that Presided' l Infant Joy ; Infant Sorrow ; The Clod and the Pebble ; The Sick Rose ; Eternity ; 'Mock on, mock on' ; 'An old maid early' ; The Question Answered ; 'Great Things are done' ; To the accuser Who Is the God of This World / William Blake --

Grace at Kirkudbright ; 'Twa bonny lads' ; On a Dog of Lord Eglinton's / Robert Burns --

Parental Recollections / Mary Lamb with Charles Lamb --

'Says Tweed to Till' ; 'Oh, England!' ; 'As I walked by my self' ; 'I saw a peacock ; 'How many miles to Babylon' ; 'My mother said' / Anonymous --

'She dwelt among the untrodden ways' ; 'My heart leaps up' ; To A Child: Written in Her Album / William Wordsworth --

'Look not thou; ; 'Youth! thou wear'st to manhood now / Sir Walter Scott --

Sunset ; Time, real and imaginary: an allegory ; Apologia Pro Vita Sua ; Phantom ; On Imitation / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --

Soldier's Wife: Dactylics / Robert Southey --

'Had we two met' ; Dirce ; Plays ; 'Ireland never was contented' ; 'Death stands above me' / Walter Savage Landor --

Venetian Air ; an Argument: To Any Phillis or Chloe ; Song ('When the heart's feeling') ; To Miss - ('With woman's form) ; To - - ('When I loved you') / Thomas Moore --

Beneath the Cypress Shade/ Thomas Love Peacock --

'So we'll go no more a-roving' ; 'I would to Heaven' ; 'Remember thee! remember thee! ; Lines Written beneath a Picture ; Answer to -"s Professions of Affection ; 'They say that Hope is happiness / George Gordon, Lord Byron --

Song ('A widow bird sate mourning') ; The Waning Moon ; Lines to a Reviewer ; To- ('Music, when soft voices die') / Percy Bysshe Shelley --

Field path ; Lines Written on a Very Boisterous Day in May, 1844 ; Solitude ; Fragment ; Birds' Nests / John Clare --

'This living hand' / John Keats --

Song ('Stew not earth') from the Second Brother / Thomas Lovell Beddoes --

Letters ; Days ; Character ; Quatrain: Poet ; Water ; Limits / Ralph Waldo Emerson --

Best / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --

All's Well / John Greenleaf Whittier --

'From sorrow sorrow yet is born' ; The Eagle ; A Dedication ; 'I stood on a tower in the wet' ; 'Somebody being a nobody ; Frater Ave atque Vale / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --

Home Thoughts from the Sea ; Meeting at Night ; Parting at Morning ; Among the Rocks from James Lee's Wife ; 'When I vexed you' from Ferishtah's Francis ; To Edward Fitzgerald ; Appearances ; Bad Dreams / Robert Browning --

'Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird' ; 'Each more melodius note I hear ; On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon ; 'For thought the eaves were rabbeted' ; 'They made me erect and lone' / Henry Thoreau --

Fall, leaves, fall / Emily Brontë --

Darkness ; 'To spend uncounted years of pain' / Arthur Hugh Clough --

'Sixty-Eighth Birthday / James Russell Lowell --

Monody ; Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the Twelfth Century ; In the Pauper's Turnip-Field / Herman Melville --

Are You the New Person Drawin Toward Me? ; Sometimes With One I Love ; Reconciliation ; A Noiseless Patient Spider ; The Last Invocation ; Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats ; Old War-Dreams ; A Clear Midnight ; To the Pending Year / Walt Whitman --

Destiny ; 'Below the surface-stream / Matthew Arnold --

Heraclitus / William Cory --

Mill / William Allingham.

Revelation ; The Spirit's Epochs ; Constancy Rewarded ; Magna Est Veritas / Coventry Patmore --

Aspecta Medusa ; Memory / Dante Gabriel Rossetti --

'I like a look of agony' ; 'I'm Nobody' ; 'They say that time assuages' ; 'It dropped so low' ; 'I stepped from plank to plank' ; 'The stimulus beyond the grave' ; 'We miss a kinsman more' ; 'It sounded as if the streets were running' ; 'Drowning is not so pitiful' ; 'My life closed twice before its close' / Emily Dickinson --

What Would I Give? / Christina Rossetti --

Last Wish / Edward Bulwer, Earl of Lytton --

Power of Interval / John Warren, Lord De Tabley --

'I Look Into My Glass' ; A Thunderstorm in Town ; The Peace-Offering ; The Pink Frock ; On Sturminster Foot-Bridge (Onomatopoeic) ; The Nettles ; The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House ; The Lodging-House Fuchias / Thomas Hardy --

Heaven-Haven: A Nun Takes the Veil ; Pied Beauty ; Peace ; 'How looks the night?' ; 'Repeat that, repeat' ; 'Not all of my eyes see' ; 'She schools the flighty pupils of her eyes' ' The Rainbow / Gerard Manley Hopkins --

Triolet ('When first we met') ; April 1885 / Robert Bridges --

'I Am the Way' ; The Rainy Summer ; Maternity / Alice Meynell --

'I am a hunchback' / Robert Louis Stevenson --

On a Wife / Francis Coutts --

Night has a Thousand Eyes / Francis William Bourdillon --

Symphony in Yellow / Oscar Wilde --

At Lord's ; Heaven and Hell ; The End of It / Francis Thompson --

Eight o'Clock ; 'The night is freezing fast' ; 'The fairies break their dances' ; Revolution ; 'Stars, I have seen them fall' ; 'Crossing alone the nighted ferry' ; 'Half-way, for one commandment broken' / A.E. Housman --

Nurse's Lament ; 'We never said farewell' ; 'I saw a stable' / Mary Coleridge --

Miniature / Eden Phillpotts --

'Look, you have cast out Love!' from Plain Tales from the Hills ('Lispeth') ; 'There is a tide' from Plain Tales from the Hills ('Kidnapped') ; A Dead Statesman from Epitaphs of War / Rudyard Kipling --

All Things Can Tempt Me ; Paudeen ; The Cold Heaven ; A Coat ; A Thought from Propertius ; Death ; Spilt Milk ; The Choice ; Consolation ; The Great Day / W.B. Yeats --

Maquillage ; At the Cavour ; Isolation ; Venice / Arthur Symons --

Epigram ('Because I am idolatrous') ; Vita Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam / Ernest Dowson --

Outcast / George Russell --

Beside the Bed / Charlotte Mew --

Old Story ; Exit / Edwin Arlington Robinson --

Early Morning ; Discovery ; The False Heart / Hilaire Belloc --

'In the desert' ; 'A god in wrath' ; 'A man said' / Stephen Crane --

On an Island ; Dread / J.M. Synge --

I Am the Poet Davies, William ; The Villain ; D is for Dog ; All in June / W.H. Davies --

Bells of Heaven ; 'Reason has moons' / Ralph Hodgson --

Sidera Cadentia: On the Death of Queen Victoria / Ford Madox Ford --

Arrogance ; The Spotted Flycatcher ; The Owl l ; Crazed / Walter De La Mare --

'Sir, say no more' / Trumball Stickney --

Elegy in a Country Churchyard ; Ecclesiastes / G.K. Chesterton --

In Neglect ; A Patch of Old Snow ; The Cow in Apple-Time ; The Line-Gang ; Dust of Snow ; Fireflies in the Garden ; The Armful ; Were I in Trouble ; A Mood Apart / Robert Frost --

'She had a name ; Cock-Crow ; Thaw ; Tall Nettles ; 'By the Ford' / Edward Thomas --

Cool Tombs / Carl Sandburg --

Leaden-Eyed ; What the Moon Saw ; Factory Windows Are Always Broken / Vachel Lindsay --

Anecdote of the Jar ; The Death of a Soldier ; Men Made Out of Words/ Wallace Stevens --

Hounds / John Freeman --

James Stephens --

T.E. Hulme --

Sort of a Song ; Hard Listener / William Carlos Williams --

Coward's Song / James Elroy Flecker --

Gift to a Jade ; Soul's Liberty / Anna Wickham --

Interior / Sir John Squire --

Let No Charitable Hope ; Cold-Blooded Creatures / Elinor Wylie --

Piano ; I Am Like a Rose ; Glory ; What Would You Fight For? ; To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned ; Intimates / D.H. Lawrence --

In Teesdale ; A Dead Mole ; Ba Cottage / Andrew Young --

Garden: robe de parade. Samain ; The Lake Isle / Ezra Pound --

Childhood ; All Soul's Night / Frances Cornford --

'Blighters' ; Base Details ; The General ; Everyone Sang ; 'In me, past, present, future meet' / Siegfried Sassoon --

Ave Caesar ; Eagle Valor, Chicken Mind / Robinson Jeffers --

Bells of Grey Crystal / Edith Sitwell --

Poetry ; A Face ; I May, I Might, I Must ; A Jellyfish / Marianne Moore --

Cousin Nancy / T.S. Eliot --

Emily Hardcastle, Spinster / John Crowe Ransom --

After War ; On the Night ; The Escape ; Moments / Ivor Gurney --

Never May the Fruit Be Plucked; To A Young Poet ; The True Encounter / Edna St. Vincent Millay --

One of the Principal Causes of War / Hugh MacDiarmid --

Arms and the Boy / Wilfred Owen --

Be Frugal / Richard Church --

'Buffalo Bill's' ; 'may my heart always' ; 'no time ago' ; 'Me up at does' / E.E. Cummings --

Good Appetite / Mark Van Doren --

Flying Crooked ; At First Sight ; On Dwelling ; The Beach ; Cat-Goddesses ; In Her Only Way ; She Is No Liar ; In Perspective / Robert Graves --

Departure / Edmund Blunden --

Black Tambourine / Hart Crane --

Pitcher / Robert Francis --

Fishing Boats in Martigues / Roy Campbell --

No Mean City / Patrick Macdonough --

Postscripts to a Pettiness / A.S.J. Tessimond --

Murderer ; The Lads of the Village ; Love Me! ; Lady 'Rogue' Singleton / Stevie Smith --

Where Are the War Poets? / C. Day Lewis --

For a Lamb / Richard Eberhart --

She and I ; The Compassionate Fool ; Forgive Me, Sire ; Shepherdess / Norman Cameron --

Temptations of Saint Anthony ; The Adversary ; Trinity Place / Phyllis McGinley --

Leave Them Alone / Patrick Kavanagh --

Old Triton Time / Vernon Watkins --

Gnome / Samuel Beckett --

Death of King George V ; Remorse / John Betjeman --

Let It Go / William Empson --

Snow ; The Ear ; Night Club ; Precursors ; Figure of Eight / Louis MacNeice --

Gare du Midi ; Epitaph on a Tyrant ; 'Base words are uttered' ; 'Behold the manly mesomorph' ; At the Party ; August 1968 / W.H. Auden --

Bed / A.D. Hope --

Old Florist ; Dolor ; Night Crow ; Wish for a Young Wife / Theodore Roethke --

Words ; War-Time ; The Lovers / W.R. Rodgers --

Stone Gentleman ; The Double Autumn ; Things to Come / James Reeves --

Entreaty / Robert Fitzgerald --

Stars and Planets / Norman MacCaig --

Casabianca / Elizabeth Bishop --

In Innocence ; 'I had gone broke' ; Interview with Doctor Drink / J.V. Cunningham --

During a Bombardment by V-Weapons ; Memorial Poem: N.S. 1888-1949 ; The Hittites / Roy Fuller --

Wind in the Tree / F.T. Prince --

'Village coddled in the valley'; Epitaph for the Poet ; 'Not in the poet' / George Barker --

Ire / R.S. Thomas --

'On no work of words' ; Twenty-Four Years / Dylan Thomas --

Death of the Ball Turret Gunner ; A War ; Well Water / Randall Jarrell --

Fox / Clifford Dyment --

He Resigns ; King David Dances / John Berryman --

Weather Ear / Norman Nicholson --

Invasion Summer / Laurie Lee --

Money ; Easter / C.H. Sisson --

Portrait / Judith Wright --

Families / Thomas Blackburn --

Plea / John Ciardi --

Ending ; A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in the winter / Gavin Ewart --

Lady Ralegh's Lament / Robert Lowell --

American Primitive / William Jay Smith --

Faith and Works / Muriel Spark --

Iambic Feet Considered as Honorable Scars / William Meredith --

Monument of Hiroshima ; Development / D.J. Enright --

Old Picture ; A Negro Cemetery Next to a White One ; The Death of God ; Casting / Howard Nemerov --

O Sheriffs ; King Lot's Envoys / Drummond Allison --

Epistemology ; Parable ; Piazza di Spagna, Early Morning ; Mind ; The Proof / Richard Wilbur --

Avarice / Anthony Hecht --

Home Is So Sad ; Water ; Days ; As Bad as a Mile / Philip Larkin --

Memories of Verdun / Alan Dugan --

I Know a Man / Robert Creeley --

Answers / Elizabeth Jennings --

Renewal / James Merrill --

In a Parlor Containing a Table / Galway Kinnnel --

When the War is Over / W.S. Merwin --

To My Daughter / James Michie --

Nude Descending a Staircase ; Last Child: for Daniel / X.J. Kennedy --

Cat and Mouse ; Thistles ; Full Moon and Little Frieda ; Water / Ted Hughes --

Praying / P.J. Kavanagh --

Frog Autumn ; Barren Woman / Sylvia Plath --

Riddle / Adrian Mitchell --

Upon Shaving Off One's Beard / John Updike --

Birthday Poem: for Rachel / James Simmons --

Sous-Entendu ; The Demolition / Anne Stevenson --

Mother of the Groom / Seamus Heaney --

Tractatus: for Aidan Higgins /Derek Mahon.